Monday, September 23, 2019

GONE

Quadrille # 88, and we're asked
to feature the word extinct or a
form thereof in exactly 44 words.
Submitted to dVerse
September 23, 2019
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I search for words profound
to consider becoming 
extinct
What must it be like
to be the last of your species,
passing unheralded into the
mists of time.  

What would you ask with
none to mark your passing,
facing extinction without
distinction

Why me? 

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10 comments:

  1. I think it would make a damned good book, then movie, Beverly. Every other story I've seen with a similar theme, the person who thought they were the last one ends up meeting up with someone else. A story where one really was the last of their kind could be transformational. Thank you for getting me thinking, Beverly.

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  2. For some reason it reminds me of The Last of the Mohicans. Although I don't think I ever read that book.

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  3. Interesting question you pose here Bev. Perhaps “We blew it — damn us! Damn us all to hell!”

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  4. How sad and terrible to be the last of the species. I have no answers.

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  5. Until there is one human left on the planet, we aren't extinct. Almost...

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  6. We might be the last actually... at least our children will have to do a lot of cleaning afterwards.

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  7. to be the very last...I can't imagine it.

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